The Iowa State women’s swimming team accomplished its goals while splitting a pair of dual meets with the University of Northern Iowa Panthers and Kansas Jayhawks on Friday and Saturday.

The meets were the last of the season for the Cyclones, who finished with an overall record of 4-7 and 0-3 mark in conference competition.

The Cyclones easily took care of UNI on Friday, splashing the Panthers by a score of 136-99.

“We swam really well,” Coach Duane Sorenson said. “We were able to use some different strategies in a couple of our races and see what worked.”

Several of the Cyclone swimmers swam in different events, as ISU mixed up its lineup in order to explore their versatility.

“It was a good experimental race,” Sorenson said.

Angela Arias added, “I think we did very good; our competition wasn’t very challenging, but we got some good times.”

Arias was one of several Cyclones to capture first place in an event, finishing first in the 200 freestyle with a time of 1:57.99.

The time was a lifetime-best mark for Arias, who usually swims the 50 and 100 freestyle races.

“I was really nervous about my race, but I did a good job,” she said.

A-Lisa Miles, Kelly Lorenz, Kelly Yates, Lindsay Tempel and Kim Reid also had first place finishes for the Cyclones.

ISU’s relay team of Dara Rose, Marie Tremblay, Lorenz and Tempel won the 200 medley.

“Everyone throughout the line up swam well,” Sorenson said.

Brooke Stahl gave ISU added support from the diving board with a first-place finish in the three-meter dive.

In summing up the meet, freshman Kerry Kusz said, “I think our team did really well, and it was a fun meet.”

Saturday was a different story for the Cyclones as they fell to the Kansas Jayhawks 175-117.

Despite the loss, Sorenson was fairly pleased with how the Cyclones performed.

“We had some people that stood up and raced really well,” he said.

Arias, Miles and Reid led the way for ISU. Arias won the 100 freestyle, Reid took the top spot in the 100 breaststroke and Miles placed first in the 400 individual medley.

Miles also earned a season-best time in the 200 butterfly and was right on her best time in the 200 breaststroke.

“I did pretty good,” she said. “I wanted to go a little faster since it was the last meet, but I’m not going to complain.”

The Cyclone divers made major contributions to the team effort as well by grabbing the top three places in the three-meter dive. Aleisha Kraft won the event, Erin Cowan placed second and Thea Hoeg took third.

“The women divers did very well and are getting better and better,” Diving Coach Jerry Symons said.

“As a team we just tried to do the best we could and our main goal was to keep consistent,” Kraft said. ISU closed out the meet on a positive note by winning the 200 freestyle relay. The team consisted of Rose, Arias, Tempel and Tremblay.

Tremblay, who anchored the race, said, “I was very happy with winning the race; it was a great team effort.”

Even though the Cyclones suffered a loss, Miles felt they did a good job.

“I think everyone did really well today. We had a lot of season-best times, and I think we closed out the season on a really good note,” she said.

Next up for the Cyclones is the Big 12 Championships in Austin, Texas, Feb. 19-21.

Sorenson said the Cyclones’ main goals for the event are to “swim lifetime bests in every race” and “score more points than the team did last year.”